Hospital discovery · Spine Surgery
Review 3 validated Spine Surgery hospitals, 8 affiliated spine surgeons and 7 mapped spine procedures in Mumbai, India.
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Quick answer
Spine surgery treats selected compression, instability, deformity, trauma and tumour conditions after symptoms, neurological findings and imaging are correlated. The plan must distinguish decompression from fusion, define levels and approach, and compare surgery with non-operative care where appropriate. This Mumbai page is limited to hospitals with a listed spine surgeon relationship.
3 validated hospital relationships currently match Spine Surgery in Mumbai, including Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, Medicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai. Counts require a matching hospital specialty and affiliated spine surgeon; they are not rankings or claims about outcomes.
7 spine procedures have validated hospital and doctor relationships in Mumbai, including Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Microdiscectomy, Laminectomy, Spinal Deformity Correction, Spinal Tumor Surgery, Revision Spine Surgery. Open a procedure page for the exact hospitals and doctors connected to that procedure.
At a glance
Hospital inclusion requires a Spine Surgery relationship and an affiliated spine surgeon. Procedure pages additionally require matching hospital-procedure and doctor-procedure relationships.
Hospitals
Cards use factual campus data and validated relationship counts. Ordering is alphabetical by city and hospital name, not a ranking.
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Mumbai, India
JCI Accredited
NABH AccreditedApollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai is listed for Spine Surgery in Mumbai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 2 affiliated spine surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, ACDF (Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion), Discectomy, Microdiscectomy.
Mumbai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH Accredited
NABL AccreditedGleneagles Hospital, Mumbai is listed for Spine Surgery in Mumbai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 5 affiliated spine surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Microdiscectomy, Laminectomy and 6 more.
Mumbai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedMedicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai is listed for Spine Surgery in Mumbai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 1 affiliated spine surgeon. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Microdiscectomy, Laminectomy and 4 more.
This table compares recorded attributes only. It does not score or rank hospitals.
| Hospital | City | Accreditation | Beds | Established | Validated procedures | Listed doctors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai | Mumbai | JCI · NABH | 500 | 2016 | 4 | 2 |
| Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai | Mumbai | JCI · NABH · NABL | Not recorded | 2008 | 10 | 5 |
| Medicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai | Mumbai | JCI · NABH | 310 | 2023 | 8 | 1 |
Procedures
Cities
Doctors
Each doctor has a matching hospital and Spine Surgery relationship. Procedure pages additionally require that exact doctor-procedure mapping.
Senior Consultant
Dr. Abhay Nene is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 31 years of experience. His profile records spine surgery together with pediatric spine surgery. His list runs from routine decompre…
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Consultant in Spine Surgery
Dr. Devesh Dholakia is a Consultant in Spine Surgery at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 24 years of experience in spine surgery. His list covers degenerative, deformity and revision work. He performs cervica…
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Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist
Dr. Arvind J Vatkar is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist at Medicover Hospital, Navi Mumbai, in Mumbai, with more than 22 years of experience. His profile records spine surgery together with orthopedics. His…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Manoj Jain is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 18 years of experience across orthopedics and spine surgery. His list is degenerative and trauma work on the cervical and lumbar spi…
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Consultant Spine Surgeon
Dr. Agnivesh Tikoo is Consultant Spine Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals in Mumbai, India. He has practised spine surgery in India for 15+ years experience. Fusion versus motion-preservation, ACDF versus disc replacement, and…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Harshal Bamb is Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, India. He has practised spine surgery in India for 14+ years experience. Fusion versus motion-preservation, ACDF versus disc replacement, and defor…
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Consultant Spine Surgeon
Dr. Uday Pawar is a Consultant Spine Surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 13 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics. His list covers the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. The dec…
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Consultant, Orthopaedics
Dr. Burhan Salim Siamwala is Consultant, Orthopaedics at Apollo Hospitals in Mumbai, India. He has practised spine surgery in India for 5+ years experience. Fusion versus motion-preservation, ACDF versus disc replacemen…
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City context
Mumbai has spine-surgery listings in the wider GAF directory, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs spinal fusion. Only dynamically resolved procedure relationships should produce clinician or hospital cards, and a card is not a ranking, volume statement or capability guarantee.
Mumbai has spine-surgery listings in the wider GAF directory, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs PLIF. Only dynamically resolved procedure relationships should produce clinician or hospital cards, and a card is not a ranking, volume statement or capability guarantee.
Clinician and hospital cards for Mumbai appear only when live directory relationships currently tag Spinal Fusion. An empty section is a catalog fact, not a hidden ranking. Neighbouring procedure tags must not be reused, and placement is not a volume, navigation, robotic-capability or outcome claim.
Confirm the actual operating campus, implant or cage plan, neuromonitoring, venous-thromboembolism prevention, inpatient physiotherapy and the first post-discharge review in writing. A general spine or accreditation label does not answer those case-specific questions.
Send MRI or CT files, neurological notes and current walking or sitting tolerance before booking travel to Mumbai.
Arrive with enough time for spine, anaesthetic and physiotherapy review; Stay on the same side of the harbour as the confirmed campus. Early wound review and brace checks are easier from a nearby serviced stay than from an airport hotel.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport: Mumbai and Navi Mumbai are divided by the harbour. Peak traffic and monsoon flooding turn a short map distance into a long sit — a poor match after lumbar fusion, ACDF or a brace protocol. Wet floors, stair-only buildings and long skywalks are a poor match for a lumbar or cervical restriction. Ask whether the first outpatient physiotherapy sessions sit on the same side as the ward.
Arrive with enough time for spine, anaesthetic and physiotherapy review; Stay on the same side of the harbour as the confirmed campus. Early wound review and brace checks are easier from a nearby serviced stay than from an airport hotel.
Treatment guides
Spinal fusion joins selected vertebrae so that a painful or unstable motion segment can heal as one bone, usually with screws, rods and a bone graft or cage. The surgeon prepares the disc space or posterior elements, places instrumentation and graft, and decompresses nerves if that work is part of the same sitting.
Discectomy removes the herniated disc fragment that is compressing a nerve root so that leg or arm pain from that root may ease, without fusing the segment. Through a posterior lumbar window the surgeon retracts the root, removes the offending fragment and inspects the canal. Fusion is not part of this product unless written.
Microdiscectomy uses a microscope or high magnification through a smaller window to remove the lumbar fragment that is pinching a nerve root. A small posterior incision and a microscope allow the surgeon to retract the root and remove the fragment while preserving as much stable disc as possible.
Laminectomy removes part or all of the lamina to widen the spinal canal when stenosis is squeezing the nerves, without automatically fusing the segment. Through a posterior exposure the surgeon removes lamina and flavum enough to free the thecal sac and roots, taking care of the pars if fusion is not planned.
Spinal deformity correction addresses kyphosis, sagittal imbalance or a complex curve that is not only a typical scoliotic bend, often with osteotomies, long instrumentation and fusion. The surgeon places anchors, performs the planned osteotomy, corrects alignment under neuromonitoring, and grafts a long fusion.
Spinal tumor surgery decompresses or removes a tumour affecting the vertebra, canal or cord — metastatic or selected primary — when oncology and stability already sit on the same plan. The corridor follows the tumour. Decompression, biopsy, cement, screws or a cage reconstruction are combined only as the board planned.
Revision spine surgery re-operates on a previously treated segment to address failed fusion, loose or broken implants, recurrent compression, infection or adjacent-segment problems. Scarred corridors are reopened, implants are removed or extended, and the new construct matches the failure mode. Scope ranges from a single screw to a long deformity revision.
Cost guides
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
$8,000–$18,000 indicative planning range
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$12,000–$26,000 indicative planning range
India planning ranges are not city tariffs, hospital quotations or patient-specific prices. A named hospital must confirm the written estimate.
Conditions
Conditions appear only when the controlled specialty profile or canonical procedure content records the relationship.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Questions
3 hospitals currently meet the validated specialty and affiliated-doctor rules shown on this page.
7 controlled spine procedures currently have both hospital and doctor relationship evidence in Mumbai.
8 listed spine surgeons are affiliated with the validated hospitals on this page.
Compare factual details such as city, accreditation, beds, established year, validated procedures and affiliated doctors. GAF does not assign an overall score or clinical ranking.
Use linked GAF cost guides as indicative India planning ranges. Technique, fractions, planning, imaging, admission and patient-specific requirements must be confirmed in a written hospital quotation.
Dr. Shabnam Choudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She contributes to the curation and development of medically informative healthcare content, helping ensure that information is structured clearly and presented in a patient-friendly manner.
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Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru
Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She provides medical review of healthcare content to help ensure that clinical information is accurate, understandable, and appropriately presented for patients and their families.
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